Sounds like you have the bases covered pretty well.
I use all Aquatek Premium regs, and really like them. Seem to be decent quality for the price.
Once you get everything up, and running you'll just have to get everything balanced. Your tank should flourish.
You might think about going to dry ferts. Much cheaper than brand name liquids. Not paying for 95% water.

great advice! thanks for the help! I dose liquids because some of my plants absorb nutrients through their leaves or is there some type of fertilizer that can be bought dry and suspended in water and administered like retail liquid ferts?

Yes, the dry fertilizers we use can be made into solutions to be administered in liquid form. Even in dry form, it can be just dumped into the water to be diluted and absorbed via the water column. Forum member nilocG sells them. Look into the EI dosing ritual if you're going for fast growth.

wow! i had never read that method before, certainly something to look into. my red melon sword has sprouted 4 new leaves and its only been 5 days since i planted it. I gave it one total substrate pellet from aquariumplants.com and have dosed it twice this week with a liquid fert (as directed) is that really substantial growth?

I think swords are root type plants, which are perhaps really taking advantage of your substrate pellets. In the interest of doing things on the cheap, what if I told you that you can buy some clay, and make your own pellets with the very same dry ferts?

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